Black Lives Matter

Swiss police arrested a man in Zurich following a shooting on Thursday morning, the New Zuercher Zeitung reported.

The arrested person was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds.

The reasons for the shooting that occurred during a large-scale police operation in the city were not immediately known.

A 42-year-old woman shot her younger brother in front of the apartment block in Evosmos, western Thessaloniki, where the man lives in an argument over financial dispute.

The 41-year-old was hospitalized for treatment to minor injuries sustained from the shooting while his sister faced charges of attempted manslaughter and illegal weapons possession.

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in New York and Washington on Dec. 13, stepping up demonstrations across the United States demanding justice for black men killed by white police.
      

More NBA players joined ongoing nationwide protests against police violence on Dec. 10 night and dozens of demonstrators again briefly blocked a Californian freeway.

On Dec. 6 a man was shot by a police officer in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and later died in hospital.

Mourners heard a rallying cry for justice Dec. 6 at the New York funeral of an unarmed black man shot dead by police as nationwide protests against similar killings continued for a fourth night.

More than 1,500 people gathered in New York on Dec. 4 for a second night of protests against the chokehold death of an unarmed black father-of-six by a white police officer.

The crowd massed in Foley Square, near City Hall and New York police headquarters, shouting "Shut it down" and carrying placards saying "Black Lives Matter" and "Racism Kills."       

Thousands of demonstrators disrupted New York City traffic into early Dec. 4 after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.

The mayor of the U.S. city at the center of a deadly police shooting that sparked repeated nights of racially charged unrest pledged Nov. 30 to rebuild.

The white policeman who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson has resigned, but it failed to deter angry protesters demanding justice and reform.